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Watch: 92 Year Old Bronx Man Dancing Salsa

Yesterday during an excursion to Westchester, I ended up at Empire Casino in Yonkers (Don’t judge me) and my father introduced me to a 92 year old Bronx man who was born in Puerto Rico and came over on a ship in 1942. But what caught my attention was that this man DANCES salsa for…

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LGBTQ Pride Festival Coming to Third Avenue at The Hub

MELROSE—This July 2nd, The Bronx will be getting a new LGBTQ Pride event hosted by the Third Avenue Business Improvement District, the borough’s oldest shopping district and BID. Called the 1 Bronx Festival, its purpose is to “…promote inclusion,community, and dialogue and works toward a future without discrimination where all people have equal rights under…

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What to Do In The Bronx According to Locals 

Earlier this year, The New York Times declared the South Bronx as “One of 52 Places in The World to Visit” in a horrible blurb that spoke nothing of the true culture and beauty of our neighborhoods and instead focused on new businesses that were barely a year open and with no real roots to…

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From The Bronx to the Tribeca Film Festival 

About three weeks ago, I was contacted by one of the producers for a virtual reality documentary debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival called ‘Blackout’  They had come across my coming out story which I shared last year here and were interested in interviewing me for the project.  According to the description at the film festival’s…

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The Bronx’s Only Art Store Is Closing But Seeks To Return in 2018

WILLIAMSBRIDGE—When we first broke the story that The Bronx got its first full-fledged art store in 2015, Bronxites cheered for the arrival of Artist & Craftsman. The worker owned store quickly became a fixture for many Bronx organizations not just because they were the go to art store for our borough’s artistic community but more…

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